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Below the Bell

3 Nov 2026 · (8 days ago) · Full Release

Petersen Projects

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A first-person dungeon crawler in real time, under a quarry town. Every monster warns you before it attacks, so you always have time to get out of the way, and your hand-bell is your magic against the dead.

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Developer & Publisher: Petersen Projects

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Constant real-time combat with medieval weapons against the risen dead, skeletons and a few animals. Blows show arcs of blood and red flashes, and old blood and bodies lie on the dungeon floors. The story deals with death, grief and self-sacrifice: people from the town go down to die, among them a sixteen-year-old boy, whose death is told, not shown. Pixel art; violence is shown plainly and never lingered on.

About this game

Under the quarry of Hollin Cross, an old Order buried the town's dead for four hundred years. Now the bell has started ringing on its own, and every night somebody in town hears their own name in it and goes down in the morning.

You learned to ring from the last ringer in town, so you go down after them, with a hand-bell as your magic against the dead.

Real-time combat inspired by the classic first-person dungeon crawlers, plus some new mechanics.

Every monster turns yellow before it attacks, so step aside or raise your shield

Two hands with their own cooldowns

Elite monsters, tougher and with tricks of their own

Every boss has a weakness, try to find it before it gets to you

Your magic comes from real church bell ringing, and every spell is a ringing pattern. You start with Rounds and find the others in books down below.

Ringing takes a few beats, and if you move or get hit it stops, so pick your moment

Rounds freezes the dead near you

Plain Hunt, to see where everything is going to move

Your teacher never taught you the fourth one, so you'll have to find it yourself

An action RPG with loot and a town full of quests to come back to, inspired by the classics.

12 floors in three acts and 3 optional floors

When you finish the game, there's one more floor in NG+

49 kinds of monsters and 11 bosses

36 abilities in 3 disciplines

Loot with random stats and 30 relics to find

24 quests from the people of Hollin Cross, and 4 endings

Shrines heal you and save your game, so look for one when you're hurt

Story Mode if you want to take a third of the damage, and Step mode if you want the game to wait for you. Every achievement and ending still counts with both on.

Rebindable keys and full controller support

Three game speeds

Subtitles for every sound you need to hear, and fewer flashes and colour marks if you need them

English and Brazilian Portuguese

Trailers

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System requirements

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Any x86-64 CPU from 2015 or later Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 capable GPU with 512 MB video memory Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Keyboard or gamepad.

Features & accessibility

Age rating
Constant real-time combat with medieval weapons against the risen dead, skeletons and a few animals. Blows show arcs of blood and red flashes, and old blood and bodies lie on the dungeon floors. The story deals with death, grief and self-sacrifice: people from the town go down to die, among them a sixteen-year-old boy, whose death is told, not shown. Pixel art; violence is shown plainly and never lingered on.
PC system requirements

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Any x86-64 CPU from 2015 or later Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 capable GPU with 512 MB video memory Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Keyboard or gamepad.

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